As part of this month's cover story for Dragon Ball FighterZ, we had Arc System Works' best players play a couple of rounds. We also had the chance to play several matches for ourselves, along with a few Bandai Namco employees.

Fair warning: This was us mostly messing around and asking questions, which means this gameplay isn't highly competitive. Still, it shows off some supers, specials, and more for both Yamcha and Tien, both of whom are still works in progress.

After months of preparation, Replay: Civil War is finally upon us. It's three weeks of gaming competitions between the forces of good and evil in the Game Informer offices. This episode kicks it off with four contentious one-on-one match-ups, while the Replay machine dutifully presides.

Assassin’s Creed Origins winds the clock back to a time before the Assassins and Templars, putting players in the shoes of Bayek during the last years of Ancient Egypt’s Ptolemaic Period, roughly 48-30 B.C.E. With a civil war brewing between Cleopatra VII and her brother Ptolemy XIII and the Romans at the gates of the Egyptian capital of Alexandria, it was a time of upheaval and chaos in the empire. The Ptolemaic Period is full of storytelling possibilities, and features one of history’s most fascinating figures: Cleopatra. It also provides ample opportunity for stealth/action shenanigans. As a series, Assassin’s Creed embraces major historical moments and figures while playing fast and loose with the details, so we’re going to run down five of the most interesting moments in the history of Ancient Egypt’s dying days that players might witness in the upcoming installment.

If you read one of my columns last month, you know I've been playing and enjoying the heck out of Destiny 2 (which some readers seem personally offended by for some reason, but that's a topic for another day). Something about the changes Bungie has made to the series have really clicked with me, and kept me coming back night after night.

However, the life of a professional gamer isn't that easy, and while I would love to indulge in the hedonistic pleasures of playing the same game forever and ever simply because I enjoy it, it is my sworn duty to evaluate and explicate on the latest releases for the benefit of my dear readers. Seriously – I swore an oath when I started working at G.I., and I don't intend to break it.*

Anywho, Middle-earth: Shadow of War is the hot new game this week, and while I originally intended to write another long and rambling impressions piece and then force Jeff Cork to proofread it, a clear focal point** has emerged from my play sessions: the Nemesis system.

In the Dragon Ball FighterZ issue of the magazine you can find a separate feature about the history of the franchise and its myriad video game adaptations. As part of that look back, we were able to speak with Daisuke Uchiyama, who served as the producer on the three Budokai games, as well as a few other Dragon Ball games. Uchiyama spoke to us about how the Dragon Ball video games have evolved over the the last few years, what it was like to meet the creator of Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama, and whether or not a future Dragon Ball game would explore a genre other than fighting.

Game Informer: What is your history with making Dragon Ball games? What was your first Dragon Ball game?

It’s time again for spooks, scares, and festivities, and these smaller titles are perfect games to set the mood.

Whether it’s a dark and dingy setting, the uneasiness of being in a new situation, or being pursued by a good old-fashioned knife-wielding psychopath, these games have something to get you in the spirit for Friday the 13th and Halloween. Luckily, 2017 has been a scarily good year for indie horror titles, delivering spook-worthy experiences for an affordable price. Here are 13 of the best, each offering something different to enhance your autumnal gaming experience.

Scanner: SombrePCFor those who like: Amnesia or Gone HomeSolitude, silence, and the unknown permeate this VR exploration title from Introversion Software. Tasked with mapping an underground cavern, players set off alone to uncover the secrets of a series of tunnels, lighting up the stone work to a variety of different hues with a geothermal projector. Claustrophobic one moment and breathtaking the next, the game is phenomenal at making a descent into the unknown exhilarating and exciting.

The Evil Within is out today, and as mentioned in our review, it’s a brutal horror experience in the early hours. Enemies easily outnumber your bullets, so you’ll have to sneak, hide, and stab your way until you amass enough resources to truly tear into the hordes of STEM. To make the first half of the game a little easier, we came up with 10 tips to help you make the best of your limited supplies.

Use weapon parts to upgrade the shotgunYou can upgrade a few different weapons in The Evil Within 2, but we recommend focusing on the shotgun first and foremost. Its combination of power and spread make it the most useful weapon in the game. This is especially true early on, when your aim is unsteady and enemies far outnumber your shells. Upgrading the magazine and reload time are nice, but raw power will be important to taking down bosses and later enemies more effectively.

Amusement parks are where people go to relax on a sunny day. They also appear as less-than-relaxing locations in plenty of video games. Game designers can somehow be inspired by “The happiest place on Earth” and turn that inspiration into a place with murderous robots or zombies. Not all in-game parks are trying to kill you, however; some host creative mini-games for heroes and heroines to enjoy. Here are some of the most memorable amusement parks in video games.

Dead Rising 2Fortune City’s amusement park was a nice place full of UFO crashes and molemen – then the zombies arrived and ruined the family fun. Now Uranus Zone is filled with zombies, but the park offers plenty of ways to fight back. Galactic Glide, a giant swinging spaceship, kills zombies as they walk under it. Combining this with Frank West’s ingenious weaponsmithing means the zombies should be cleared out of this theme park in no time. Unfortunately, none of the awesome action in the Dead Rising 2’s Off The Record DLC (including this theme park) is canonical, but that doesn’t make it any less fun to play.

The holiday season is inching ever closer, and with that comes several companies making a push to make sure their product is what ends up on wishlists everywhere. For Pokémon Trading Card Game, that big item is the Premium Trainer's XY Collection, which releases on October 20 in select hobby stores, and then early November at retail chains.

We were sent one to check out and were impressed by the quality of the items included. Not only do you get more than a dozen full-art holographic cards including rare and legendary Pokémon, as well as trainer cards, but you also get a bunch of extras. Included in this pack are 130 card sleeves featuring the legendary Pokémon Xerneas and Yveltal from the X/Y games, a double deck box featuring those two creatures, two sets of tournament dice, and a metal coin featuring Pikachu wrapped up in a high-quality kickstand box.

The Nintendo Switch got a new game today, with the release of the downloadable beat 'em up Wulverblade. Leo Vader and I checked it out as soon as it hit the eShop, and you can see a few levels in action in our new video.

Darkwind Media's game has undergone some changes since I first saw it at an Xbox One indie event in 2014, most notably the addition of several playable characters. Rather than playing as the brutish Caradoc, Leo went with the speedier hero, Guinevere. She's able to block incoming projectiles with her shield and hack enemy limbs off with her sword. In case you didn't figure it out, this game is a little violent.

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